CM Lifecycle
First active configuration process
What is control configuration?
Any hardware, software, or combination of both that satisfies an end use function and is designated for separate configuration management
What is a configuration item?
Chairperson, Secretariat, and Subject Matter Experts
Who are members of the CCB?
Reduced time and cost
What are benefits of CM?
Capture and storage of configuration information needed to manage products and product information
What is status accounting?
CM bumper-sticker definition (2 parts)
What are manage change and make data-driven decisions?
Documentation categories that may have different requirements
What are drawings and models, hardware and software, digital threads, rack elevations?
Body delegated responsibility for maintaining the status of all proposed changes
What is the Configuration Control Board?
Agreed to description of the attributes of a product which serves as a basis for defining change
What is a baseline?
Types of audits (2 parts)
What are periodic in-process and independent?
Intersection of CM and logistics
What is the maintenance plan?
It is the pre-requisite for other CM activities
What is the importance of clearly identifying configuration items?
Bonus - name them
Final approval authority of changes
Who is the Chairperson?
Availability of organized, consistent, and authoritative information
What is accessibility?
Location where status accounting information is captured
What is CM database?
Provide meaningful trends related to CM goals
What are metrics?
Bonus - describe measures
The item provides significant operational or financial impact, requires separate logistical support, and/or can readily be marked as a separate item
What are configuration item criteria?
Decisions made by CCB (2 parts)
What are impact analysis of CRs and approval of major or critical baseline deviations?
Process to determine whether a change may affect a current baseline
What is Impact Analysis?
What is product baseline?
Core CM Processes (5 parts)
What are Plan and Manage, Identify Configuration, Control Configuration, Account for Status, and Audit and Verify?
CAGE code, serial or lot number, and part number
What is documentation requirement guidance for items large enough to legibly mark?
Secretariat's main responsibilities (3 parts)
What are distributing CRs, consolidating comments, and scheduling meetings?
Version of decision making based on current system state
What is Data-based?
Includes number of changes processed, adopted, rejected, and open
What are status accounting measures?